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Thread #161264 Message #3830570
Posted By: Will Fly
05-Jan-17 - 08:56 AM
Thread Name: Does Folk Music Make Your Miserable?
Subject: RE: Does Folk Music Make Your Miserable?
Music has been a life changer for me. I was a weedy, 20-year old who got sand kicked in his face and his best girl stolen by big bullies.
Did I go on a Charles Atlas bodybuilding course? Not on your life! I acquired a guitar, grew a foot taller and 3 stone heavier, became the life and soul of the party, was a success in everything I aimed for, and with a bird on each arm. How I laughed at the world as I skipped all the way to the bank.
Mmm... there might be a slight exaggeration there but, there's no doubt about it, music in all its forms became a passion for me at an early age and has remained so right up to the present day. Not just folk music, though - all music from folk to blues to jazz to ragtime to 1920s and 1930s songs to classical to opera to rock'n roll and beyond. The joy of making music - for and with friends - is the greatest fun you can have with your clothes on.
Actually, at my age, it's probably the greatest fun you can have with your clothes off...